Movie · 2025 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 1h 55m · R · English
Curator score: 5.1/10 (1.5M ratings)
Time didn't heal anything.
Overview
Twenty-eight years after the Rage virus outbreak, a heavily-defended island survives connected to the mainland by a single causeway. When one of the group leaves the island into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.
Ratings
Curator score: 5.1/10
IMDb: 6.6/10
Letterboxd: 3.44/5
Rotten Tomatoes: 88%
Metacritic: 77
TMDB: 6.6/10
Director
Danny Boyle
Production
Columbia Pictures, DNA Films, Decibel Films, TSG Entertainment
Cast
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Alfie Williams, Ralph Fiennes, Jodie Comer, Jack O'Connell, Chi Lewis-Parry, Edvin Ryding, Christopher Fulford, Stella Gonet, Kim Allan, Sandy Batchelor, Geoffrey Newland, Joe Blakemore, Celi Crossland, Robert Rhodes, Erin Kellyman, Sam Locke, Maura Bird, Ghazi Al Ruffai, Emma Laird
Where to watch
Netflix
Curator Review
Verdict
A bold, uneven return to the Rage-virus world: tense, inventive, and occasionally beautiful, but also tonally jagged and more interested in family drama, myth, and strange detours than straightforward survival horror. If you like ambitious genre sequels that swing hard, it’s worth a watch; if you want a clean, relentless zombie thriller, this may frustrate you.
Best for
fans of post-apocalyptic horror with emotional or philosophical detours
viewers who like experimental editing and tonal risk-taking
people interested in British survival stories and ruined-world atmosphere
audiences open to horror that blends action, drama, and bleak humor
Skip if
you want a tight, conventional zombie movie
you dislike abrupt tonal shifts or odd structural choices
you mainly want nonstop gore and chase scenes
you prefer sequels that closely replicate the original's style
Overview
Twenty-eight years on, the franchise still knows how to make a landscape feel haunted. The island-and-mainland setup gives the film a strong survival premise, and when it leans into dread, movement, and the physicality of the infected, it can be genuinely gripping. There’s also a welcome willingness to get strange, which keeps it from feeling like a routine legacy sequel.
Worth noting
But that same willingness to wander is the movie’s biggest liability. It often feels less like a pure horror sequel than a fractured mix of apocalypse movie, family drama, and eerie fable, with some abrupt shifts in tone and rhythm. For some viewers that will read as daring; for others, as disjointed.
Bottom line
The result is a film that’s easy to admire more than to fully embrace. It has enough atmosphere, ideas, and visual force to recommend to genre fans, especially those who like their horror messy and ambitious. Just don’t expect a simple return to the earlier films’ lean, feral urgency.
Top Letterboxd reviews
Lenny (3★) · 24986 likes
Ralph Fiennes is so damn orange in this film, I thought he was the fucking Lorax.
timtamtitus (3★) · 21359 likes
starting to think the virus has Viagra in it
David Sims (4.5★) · 12489 likes
third act Finnes never misses
Jake (3.5★) · 12141 likes
british people be like: zombie bit me arse
zoë rose bryant (5★) · 11852 likes
the children i teach each and every week were all born between october 2019 and march 2020. they spent their first year of life isolated from the rest of the world as a result of a nearly unprecedented pandemic that completely upended every aspect of modern society. said world they’ve grown up in since is radically different from the one any of us knew as children - one they’ll never have any knowledge of. and though most are only a… more the children i teach each and every week were all born between october 2019 and march 2020. they spent their first year of life isolated from the rest of the world as a result of a nearly unprecedented pandemic that completely upended every aspect of modern society. said world they’ve grown up in since is radically different from the one any of us knew as children - one they’ll never have any knowledge of. and though most are only a… more
2007 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 1h 39m · R · Curator 2.8/10 (958.5K ratings) · Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
A harsher, more militarized companion piece that expands the same world in a different register.